News & Notes: GFW Lawsuit Status, WWE Cena Poll, Jericho’s WWE Debut

Status of Merchandise Lawsuit Against GFW/TNA

GFW is currently expected to hold another conference this week related to the status of their lawsuit with Fraley International, LLC.

Fraley sued GFW/TNA in June 2016 over claims of being owed money from unpaid merchandise shipments during the time they were TNA’s official merchandise distributor from Asia. The original attorneys representing GFW/TNA’s side of the case withdrew their services last April due to lack of payments.

WWE Holding Fan Poll Asking Which Achievement Cena Should Go After

WWE is currently holding a poll on their official website asking fans which “career first” achievement John Cena should go after first.

The poll’s choices are:
*Break Ric Flair’s record and win a 17th World Championship
*Win his first IC Championship
*Win the King of the Ring tournament
*Face Roman Reigns one on one
*Battle the Undertaker at WrestleMania

At the time of this article, breaking Ric Flair’s record was leading at 32% of the vote followed by a Wrestlemania match against Undertaker at 26% of the vote.

WWE Did You Know – Chris Jericho’s WWE Debut Anniversary

In a “WWE Did You Know” type fact, yesterday was the 18th anniversary of Chris Jericho’s debut in the WWE.

After being unhappy for a while in WCW, Jericho signed a deal with the WWE (WWF at the time) in June 1999 and had his debut hyped up in the form of a mysterious “Countdown to the new Millennium” clock over the course of several weeks. On August 9th, 1999 the Millennium clock interrupted a promo by The Rock leading to Jericho’s official debut in the WWE and the arrival of his “Y2J” persona.

Hahahaha! GFW/TNA is being sued for ripping off someone and the lawyers they were using to defend themselves quit because they were getting ripped off.

You can’t make this stuff up people!

GFW still TNA’ing

Creature_of_the_Night

I was in the arena at the Horizon when Jericho made his debut – second level – but I was there.

Creature_of_the_Night

That was TNA’s doing – NOT GFW’s. New owners… so no case.

Move along – nothing to see here.

Creature_of_the_Night

Can’t pay people with what you don’t have.

Not a charity, folks.

y2JB #x2cclub

No they are a business. Which means they need to pay people for their work. But they don’t. Hence the bad business and loltnagfw

FinnMcInnes

My thoughts exactly. You know what happens to companies that can’t pay their bills? They go out of business.

Creature_of_the_Night

Fine.

No problem.

At least they will go out doing things the right way.

And not messing up wrestling to make a dollar like WWE did/does.

David

They aren’t doing things the right way. Not paying your vendors or employees even when times are tough, isn’t a good thing.

Creature_of_the_Night

Doesn’t bother me.

(shrugs)

David

It should. If you want GFW/TNA to be successful, you’d want them to go about things the right way.

Creature_of_the_Night

I think they ARE doing things the right way – putting out a good product.

But people don’t know what good wrestling is anymore – look at you and your Universe. Vince warped people’s minds.

Worship WWE and it’s crap.

A lot of crap in all entertainment industries make money.

Sometimes you can put out a good product – or you can put out a product that makes money.

I like GFW because it stays truer to what pro wrestling should be like than WWE does.

And if not selling out (literally and figuratively) causes the company to close, I’d rather that happen, than be childish like WWE and change so much from the 80s, and survive.

Never change on that.

David

I actually don’t like WWE at the moment. I can’t tell you the last time I watched it, to be honest.

They are doing some good things I’ll give you that. I really like EC3 and a few others.

I don’t worship WWE or Vince, but you can have a good product and make money.

Look at Disney. They own just about every thing. They own Star Wars, and The Marvel cinematical. They’re both very successful franchises. While some people may not like them, they are very successful, they put out great products that are well received by critics and fans alike. Don’t get me wrong they’ve had a few busts, like Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. But they still are able to pay everyone when something flops.

You don’t need to be cartoony, but you still need to be able to draw a large audience in. A company should always be trying to expand and make more money. Because that’s how you pay employees, and attract vendors and networks and stuff.

FinnMcInnes

Explain then why GFW is now TV-PG then. That’s entirely based on advertisers and money. Thus selling out. And it’s a Jeff Jarrett initiative.

Creature_of_the_Night

A lot of great independent film makers “do things the right way” and make great deep movies, but they aren’t commercially successful because they aren’t commercial and for instance, CGI-fests.

It all comes down to what you want to do.

Sell out beliefs and the industry and put out crap and make money even though you know you aren’t doing things quite the way you’re supposed to,

or put out a crappy Adam Sandler movie that you know draws people and will get a big weekend.

It’s not cut and dry that the “best product” is the most successful.

David

You’re right. They’re are a lot of great Indie films. But there’s also a lot of terrible indie films. And Adam Sandler is horrible. But CGI isn’t always a bad thing. And I honestly don’t remember a successful Adam Sandler film.

X2C

Jeff Jarrett could come out dressed as a nazi and Ol Creatch would still call it a stroke of genius

Dabrasko

Because you are an idiot that doesn’t understand how commerce works!!!

FinnMcInnes

shhhh, Creature. The adults are trying to have a conversation.

The Governor

Going out the right way?

Not paying THEIR employees is the right way?

Creature_of_the_Night

Those employees draw and bring the company money….

…and that won’t be an issue.

Not a charity, bubba.

Creature_of_the_Night

Calvin and Governor accounts posting at the same time – hmmmmmmm – lol – I think it is like one person that hates on me – and he has 10 or more accounts to make it look like I’m so hated.

He tries to make WWE look more popular than it is so uses multiple accounts.

y2JB #x2cclub

You know what else happens? They just made the list!

Creature_of_the_Night

WWE makes money and pays their people on time, and the product is crap.

So there you go.

y2JB #x2cclub

You are a fool

Creature_of_the_Night

The_X2C:

“”Didn’t WCW have cruiserweights? Wasn’t WCW around before TNA and GFW? That’s what I thought.
Don’t more people pay for the WWE Network than watch GFW or buy its PPVs? That’s what I thought.
Get out of here. Next question?””
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Funny how there is no mention that wCw was around before ROH and NJPW either. Always ole GFW.

For someone who thinks GFW is crap, it sure is on his mind a lot and he talks about it a lot.

The jerk always has an apology for WWE – how can you love that fake crap so much – can you say “desperately in need of a life”. What has WWE ever done for that idiot that he worships that company so much?

When the company is obviously crap compared to what it and the wrestling industry once was?

That’ll always be my bone of contention.

y2JB #x2cclub

The only person who desperately needs a life on here is you. You’re the only person who posts 50 times a day, usually just talking to yourself.